Updates

Sorry I'm not very active lately with my blog because I stopped modding, my time is limited now and modding isn't easy, so now I make some renders in my free time (Dragon Age themed this time). I'm planning on a last mod for Mass Effect 3, it's in WIP stage so I don't know when I'll release it I hope before Andromeda. It will be new outfits for Ashley and Kaidan.

This is a copy  from my last DA Journal where I'm more active, you can follow me there for updates:

Hi everyone! I hope everything is fine for all of you :D! I'm very busy with work so I don't have a lot of free time to make renders, I work on them when I can, basically every normal render takes me about 5 or 6 days with all the rendering and post processing work, so it's a slow process for me ;P. Anyways, I uploaded today some renders from my Human Noble Origin series, I love especially how the render "The Old Times" looks, it's very lovely and nostalgic for me because it's also obvious in game that Bryce Cousland and the Warden Cousland were always very close :).

I have in mind one last render for this "Noble Origin" serie with all the entire family and then focus only in my warden and her LI. I want to recreate her in Inquisition too for future renders with better graphics and aged but I'll need to sculpt her better than use the character creator in game because it's not possible to extract headmorphs yet =(, the same with my Inquisitor.

Speaking of Inquisition, I finally played The Trespasser DLC two weeks ago but I started a new game for it because I wanted to start the game fresh again, so I started with a mage Lavellan this time with Solas romance and all with different choices that my first character ( my first gameplay was rogue Trevelyan with Cullen). I have to say that it has been more satisfactory with Lavellan and all the choices I made this time. I love Cullen he is adorable and lovely but all was too happy ending and good for my taste, with Solas all is "Oh god the feels, my heart, that bald man drives me mad but I love him anyways :D" and it seems I like to suffer xD. Even the Trespasser was better with Solas romance for me, it was oh my god @,@ but I'm not going to talk about it and make spoilers if someone hasn't played it yet.

Here's a screenshot of my Lavellan:


Yes, I know, she is red head with green eyes too! but in my defense I have to say she isn't named Laura and my Hawke is blonde lol :P, she is Keerava Lavellan and Solas removed her Vallaslin  .

Thanks for your time, sorry for my english and see you soon ;),

Some Dragon Age renders:

More in my deviant art.

Mass Effect 3 - Modded Formal Outfit

My Modded Formal Outfit ported to Mass Effect 3!

Mesh mod project that replaces the N7 Dress in Mass Effect 3 for FemShep. I created the model using different outfits in game and remodeling them, all parts are modeled and modified in 3Ds Max and some items made from scratch.

I created this new dress specially for the Casino mission, because the first time I saw my Femshep with that n7 plastic dress for that special occasion broke my heart, so I gave her a proper dress using parts from the game and my beginner skills with 3Ds Max. This mod took me one year because when I started it my pc broke down and I had to wait to finish it, sorry for all the waiting for those who knew the project in an early stage :). 

Download:
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/346/?

- Modded Formal Outfit Mod by me from differents outfits in game, parts modeled and modified in 3Ds Max and some items from scratch.
- Heart Necklace by MoogleOutFitters.

Mass Effect game and characters are belong to Bioware.

Update!

Hi! I have been a bit busy these weeks and haven't replied any comment yet, sorry!  I was working on port and fix Formal Outfit mod for the game in my free time and it's finished!

I updated textures, added normal map for skin, adjust specular map and change some things in the diffuse map like some lines on chest that I forgot in XNALara version. (I'll upload these textures for XNALara version too that's why I removed the links :P)
I'm going to upload the project in Nexus Mods and add a deviation here with links, so I hope it will be ready tomorrow =).

Here are some screenshots in game with the dress I hope you like it!.

Mass Effect 3 - Modded Formal Outfit Jane for XPS

UPDATED TEXTURES

Finally my Modded Formal Outfit converted for XPS/XNALara, sorry for all the LONG delay without a pc I couldn't finish it, so it was a very long year without it :D.

I'm not the best at retexturing but I did my best with my new digital pad, I need to learn more but I hope you like it :).

Download Links:
Boots with Heart Necklace Model
Boots with Metal Necklace Model
Heeled Shoes with Heart Necklace Model
Heeled Shoes with Metal Necklace Model

Updated:
*Added Normal Map for skin, arms, chest and legs are more detailed now.
*Adjust Specular Map .
*Added some details in Diffuse map, upper dress lines more detailed and added lines to fit the design.

- Modded Formal Outfit Mod by me from differents outfits in game, parts modeled and modified in 3Ds Max and some items from scratch.
- Heart Necklace by MoogleOutFitters.
- Jane Shepard extracted from the game by me with umodel.

Issues: Arms looks like bubble gum aka "noodle arms" when posing them but this happens to all Mass Effect female models, I hate this T.T.

Want this for the game? Uploading...
* Next step is to port it in game to replace that n7 dress in plastic and upload it to Nexus mods.

Mass Effect game and characters are belong to Bioware.

Feel free to use it in your works but please do NOT just recolor the model and upload it as your own. Always ASK and CREDIT me.

It's finally here!!

This is a copy from my dA journal

Yes! my new pc is finally here, I ordered it monday last week and it came in 24h, too fast!! I have not had fully time for it last week due the holidays but now all is installed and prepared .

I ordered it by pieces, to building it myself, I only had some problems to allocate the cooler master hyper 212 evo because what a beast and some small connectors from the motherboard but with motherboard user's guide all went ok .

So the final build was:
CPU AMD FX Series FX-8350 4.0Ghz 8X Black Edition
Motherboard Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0
Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Memory Corsair Vengeance PC3-12800 DDR3 1600 8GB 2x4GB CL9 LP
Storage Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB SATA3 64MB
Graphic Card Sapphire Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X Tri-X STD 3GB GDDR5
Power Supply Nox Urano VX 750W
*Case Thermaltake Xaser III from my brother, it is old but really big and had 6 coolers, the problem with this is the coolers are very old and loud and I had to remove one from the door because it doesn't be able to close with cooler master 212 evo and was broken, other fan also broke down completly in one day, so i'm now with 4 fans. Other problem I see with this case is the power supply need to be allocated above and not below like all the new cases.

This month I was able to save 100€ more and buy a new power supply and I changed the hard drive to 2tb to 1 to save some money too and buy a better graphic card, that graphic card was in offer in that page. In the following months I want to buy other hard drive because 1 tera is not enough for me and good/quiet fans for the case.

Some screenshots:

                                                               The package is here!

 
                                                                    All boxes

 
                       The graphic card, I said the cooler master hyper 212 evo was a beast but this..                                                                         IS  A MONSTER!!

                        The motherboard with the AMD FX cpu with thermal grease, next step was                                                                                  install cooler master

                      All building in the case finally (next day I changed cooler master hyper  
                                                212 evo  position for better cooling)

                                                                 Ready and closed

The first day I had cpu temperature problems, I know AMD processors are a furnace but that was too much, so I changed cooler master hyper 212 evo position in parallel, added a better thermal grease and changed some case fans position, with this, temperature was a lot better and cpu gets 10 degrees less.

My old pc was an intel quad core Q6600 2.4Ghz, 4gb Ram DDR2 with ATI Radeon HD 5670 and was 10 years old, minus graphic card which was 6, so it is a good improvement.
I tested some old renders and which in my old pc took me at least one hour in new pc took me 5 minutes or less, awesome.

Now, I need to refresh my memory in some programs because more than a year is too much and I have forgotten some things.
Also, my boyfriend gifted me a Wacom Intuos Pen last year for my birthday which is my first digital pad and I had not truly the chance to use it till now so I'm trying to learn how to use and get used to it too, but it's frustrating sometimes, I hope I can learn it soon.
I'm so happy now, a new pc, a wacom.. what else can I ask for? It took me 7 months to save all the money for a new pc but things are finally beginning to go all right with patience .

Thanks for all the waiting and see you soon with new works.

Good News!

Hi, it has been a long time since my last post but I have good news!

I'm close to reach the funds to buy my new pc, I only need 50€ to reach it and that's not all! my boyfriend is going to pay me a graphic card as a birthday present which is in July but.. yeah a gift in advance so I'll have a new graphic card too!!! so now the build goes from 400€ to 600€ and again that's not all, my brother gave me his old case that I can save 50€ from the case and put these on a better processor.

So I hope I can order it this next week or next month at the latest. I'm so near..!

I'm going for best-performance and best value for money build,the best option for me now, so this is the final build (in euros) :

CPU AMD FX Series FX-8350 4.0Ghz 8X Black Edition
Motherboard  Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Memory Corsair Vengeance PC3-12800 DDR3 1600 8GB 2x4GB CL9 LP
Storage  Seagate Desktop 7200.14 2TB SATA3 64MB
Graphic Card Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X OC 3GB GDDR5
                                                                                  Total: 638€
Reused pieces:

Power Supply Nox Urano SX 500W
Case Thermaltake Xaser III (6 or 7 years old but really big)

I'm thinking about my power supply because AMD and ATI consuming a lot and may it not be enough but I have to try it first .

To finish,  I would like to thank to the good soul who has gifted me with a Premium Account in DeviantArt, thank you so much :).

No, No I'm not back.

 This is a copy  from my DA Journal

It's been a long time since the last time we saw each other but now more reasons for that because I am the luckiest woman in the world *irony* :(. Remember the last journal when my pc broke down and I should buy a new power supply bla, bla, bla...? So I bought a new one and my pc worked fine for a week and then died completely (only two days after my birthday, yeah ¬¬) my poor pc was very old and can't be saved with nothing now lol . So I'm again on my laptop and I can't do nothing now with my mods, renders or play a decent game till I buy a new pc T_T.

The problem is I haven't at least 400 or 500€ to buy a mid-decent pc (because I can save the new power supply and the graphic card from my old pc), I have no job and no income now at all so It will be a while until I can buy one and back (or maybe a miracle :P).

Ah, don't worry, all my mods and work at least is saved!  .

I hope we meet again soon, best wishes /kiss .

EDIT: If you want to help me a little here I drop my donate button, any donations will be greatly appreciated to back to my works, thank you very much.

Update: Ok I am going for a 400€/$504 PC build. Each month I can save at least 40-50€ so I will need a period of 5 or 6 months to purchase it. I'll put some builds on the commentaries (from dA) so any advice will be much appreciated :) . 
Money saved till now: 235! 165€ to go. (I'll update this every month)

Thanks so much in advance to everyone who donate /hug.

Hey, I'm back!

This is basically a copy from my DA Journal but I'm going to put this here too because this blog has been somewhat abandoned ( The same with my Tumblr, but I don't like Tumblr much and I'm a bit lost with it) :

The last months I had not much time to work with my mods only weekends but I have been unlucky enough to lose my pc, it broke down. At least I was able to save my had drive with all my projects... thank goodness!!
It took me long time to back because I haven't money to buy a new pc so I fixed my old pc with old pieces..
But anyway, I have to install all the programs I used,all the games again, all the configuration now... ><

Sorry for all the people that are waiting my dress mod, it was almost done when my pc broke down but yeah, at least I didn't lose it :).
Now I hope I can finish the mod when I can catch up on with all the things this month so maybe it will be released in June.

I have to mention the Formal outfit mod will be my last mod at least for the game and all my future mods will be only available for XNA Lara. Design mods for in game are more complicated and requires a lot of work because you have to fix all issues with the animations to avoid clipping and I also want back to do renders, I miss renders so much...! .

Well, I'm glad to see you all here again and I hope I can mantain my DA more updated right now again, ah and once again sorry for my English !.

Progress on the Modded Formal Outfit

This weekend I had some time for the dress and now the UVW map is done and works fine in game without any problem. However I need to remodel some zones like the breast because it’s too big for my taste and other minor issues with the mesh and the most important thing for it.. a proper retexture for the dress because it hasn’t any texture yet. I’m thinking on a leather texture and paint some lines to simulate something near to the ME2 dress. The idea is create something proper for the casino mission on the Citadel DLC.

Do you remember the art promo of the dress?? :D
http://kurauamami.deviantart.com/art/Mass-Effect-3-Modded-Formal-Outfit-Alpha-Version-412539448

                        
                   In-game

Of course this mod will be available for XNALara like my other mods too and I will try to release it together with the N7 shirt for Maleshep, promise >.<.

Some screenshots in game (as I said, the dress isn't textured yet, only colored so the final version will be better :)):

     Ingame

Busy for now

Hello! You may have noticed that I'm not much here all these days and I reply too late, sorry about that! but I'm taking a break from modding because I'm so busy now in real life, my exams are very near and I have not much time to do anything aside :(. I'll be free around mid February and hope I'll be able to finish all my WIP list like the new formal dress for Shepard, convert to XPS the N7 shirt for Male Shep and do some of my forgotten renders.

However, If you have any question or issue with my mods or something let me know but sorry if I respond late >.<.

See you soon at 100% :)!!

Alliance texture for MaleShep

MaleShep’s extra texture (Alliance) for the N7 Shirt mod is now up! Female version will be ready soon :). 

Download on Nexus Mods

 

Modded Casual N7 Shirt v2.0 Now UP!

Ok version 2.0 is now up on Nexus Mods, extra textures will be available soon but now I need a long break of mods because I'm so tired... modding has a lot of work specially if you make them for the game. All I want now is play a bit WoW XD!. Ah, XNALara version of this will be ready after Christmas.

See you :D.

A minor update on my Top Tank Mod

I added an alternative version of the original top tank more larger, now it covers the belly. I think it's nice to have more versions :), I hope you like it!.

                                                   Download on the Nexus mods

Screenshots in Game Femshep Shirt V2.0

Finally some pics in game showing the remodeled version with improved texture:

    Alliance emblem looks a bit deformed because it's on the supposed site where the hole was but I 

 can fix it :).

 

The femshep version is almost completed but maleshep's version needs some texture improvements and minor fixing issues and I want to release both versions at the same time. 

Maybe the release will be tomorrow :D.

See you !

Remodeling Femshep's Shirt

I'm trying to remodel the "weird space" on Femshep shirt from my mod to release the version 2.0 and Ashley version with it. Remodel things like a breast can be a real headache but I begin to understand how a vertex really works to prevent deform the mesh, with a lot of patience and the correct tools (scale, move, smooth tool and planar) it's possible!.

Some people also ask me if I could resized the chest because it looks so big (although I didn't change anything on the original outfit, it was the original size) and time before the release I was thinking on it because I don't like Shepard's chest size on ME3, to be honest I expected no one would like the resized chest with less breast, what a surprise :D.

So I resized the chest and eliminated the space between the breast, it took me 6 hours lol and it's not finished yet, I need to align some vertices because the texture on the chest looks a bit deformed but not much noticeable. Here's some pics (all from 3Ds, pics from the game soon, need fix some issues first :)):

 No more weird space but I need to smooth some vertices for the release.

Chest resized, now looks more natural but I think it still needs some resize from the top, need work on it.

Working in edged faces mode helps a lot for modeling, that was my mistake before and you should always work with that mode.

Wow, now it looks more like a shirt, isn't it? I'm happy with the result.

  The model with the diff texture. The texture on the remodeled body is a bit deformed where the weird space was, I need working on it.

Well, that was all, I hope I will release the new version soon without any problem.

Best regards :).

Things that I've to do

I have a lot of WIP things on my list and so little time available for it..!
Here's my list:
 - Virmire Survivors Non Combat Outfit Replacer:

The idea is replace the non combat outfit with my shirt mod.

Kaidan's oufit is a pain to change because he shares the same outfit as all alliance crew. This means that if you change Kaidan's outfit, all the men from the alliance crew (Normandy, Citadel..) would have the same outfit as him (included Joker and Cortez :D ), but well, is this or nothing :(. I've already put this in game and works fine.

Here's some pics showing the Normandy crew:

  Sexy Joker :D:

About Ashley's outfit, she doesn't share her outfit with anyone but the problem is this (she looks like silver surfer lol):

It seems the original outfit has a especial material attached for simulating that glow and don't know how to detach it yet, I should investigate it further, maybe the file needs hex editing to fix it.

UPDATE: Ok, I think I fixed this "silver issue" but now the outfit looks a bit dark and the arms shine in blue, Ashley's original outfit mysteries.. The blue shine seems to be because the original outfit it's not suppose to have skin and although I removed the specular map, the shine persist. I'm so close :/..
Thanks to Goha for the help :).

Other thing I want to do along with Kaidan's outfit is return his lashes (Bioware forgot his lashes on the way... ¬¬ ) like this:

But I have a lot of issues with this... and I'm unable to add opacity to the lashes' material plus lighting issues on his face:

This is how the lashes are without opacity, white with black background. (Poor Kaidan! XD)

More things:

- Remodel the weird space between the breast and the breast itself on my shirt mod to look more like a shirt (Ashley version will have this fixed too), this space:

I'm so bad at remodeling little things with 3Ds Max without deforming it, there must be something or a tool to prevent deforming all the mesh but I'm unable to find it, I only know the basics =(.

- Finish my Modded Formal Outfit mod:
The people want this finished but it has much work and I need a lot of time for this, specially with the bones because there are some issues that I have to fix first.

- Remodel a bit the Asari Dancer Outfit for the game to upload it along with my retexture (with this I have same issues as that weird space on the shirt).

- And finally, convert all my released mods to XPS ( First the shirt mod for sure :))

Hmm, Maybe I'll need a break after this :P .

Mass Effect 3 - Modded Casual Outfit N7 Shirt V1.5

Mesh mod project that replaces the intro outfit in Mass Effect 3. The model uses the Alliance pants, Alliance dogtags from James and upper Shepard's naked body + extra sleeves simulating a shirt. Includes blood version for the last part on the prologue.

 After two intensive days of fixing the issues from the shirt mod now it's finally finished!! the mesh issues were a pain to fix because when I fixed one thing other 321978231712389789312 things messed up but well it's finally done, sorry for the delay! mesh editing has a lot of work. Files Up!.

Download Links:

MaleShep:
N7 Shirt with Blue Dogtags
N7 Shirt with Metal Dogtags

Extra textures:
(this only has the texture file, download first the N7 Shirt mod)
Spectre shirt with Blue Dogtags
Spectre shirt with Metal Dogtags
Alliance shirt with Blue Dogtags
Alliance shirt with Metal Dogtags

FemShep:
N7 Shirt with Blue Dogtags
N7 Shirt with Metal Dogtags

Extra textures:
Coming soon...

Install instructions inside the files.

The model is in beta version, some known issues:
- Some time weird shadows on the stripes appears in some angles but this is from the game.
- Neck in both versions with spiky lines in some angles and a bit clipping with the head but it's hardly noticeable, same with sleeves.
- The dogtags in MaleShep's version is a bit far from the neck to prevent a lot of clipping with the neck.
- The dogtags in MaleShep's version gets a bit clipping with the neck when Shepard bows his head, it's not much noticeable and can't fix it more.

I'm not a pro at retexturing but I've done what I could :D:
- N7 Shirt texture by me based on the original N7 Shirt from Bioware.
- Spectre Shirt texture by me based on the original Kaidan Armour Stripe Tee Shirt from Bioware and I made it for Kaidan exclusively but Shepard can have it too, why not?
- Alliance Shirt texture by me.
- Models and textures extracted from the game with Umodel by me.
Mass Effect game and characters are belong to Bioware.

Let me know if there are any issue or bug with the mod. I haven't tried the mod in all the game so I need testers :). I hope you like it and enjoy!!.

I'll upload the models for XNALara soon.

Screenshots in Game